Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Toshiba Visual Solutions Corporation

Hisense Visual Technology Co., Ltd.

Qingdao Hisense Electronics Co., Ltd.

Hidehito Izawa

Kunio Honsawa

Reiko Kawachi

Hiroyuki Nomoto

Toshihiro Morohoshi

Takero Kobayashi

Shigeo Morimoto

Masanori Watanuki

Shun Hirao

Dai Ishimaru

Tatsuo Hirose

According to one embodiment, an electronic device determines whether one or more devices should be controlled based on a second utterance input subsequent to a first utterance input from outside in accordance with the first utterance. The electronic device includes a management unit and a controller. The management unit prepares and manages a determination audio data item for determining whether the first utterance is a desired utterance by utterances input from outside at a plurality of times, and determines whether the first utterance is the desired utterance using the prepared and managed determination audio data item. The controller controls the one or more devices based on the second utterance.

Electronic device and control method thereof

According to one embodiment, a voice interactive device configure to transmit a voice content to a plurality of voice interactive services through a network, wherein the plurality of voice interactive services are selected based at least in part on the voice content.

Voice interactive device and method for controlling voice interactive device

According to one embodiment described herein aim to provide a mobile assist device capable of comprehensively determining (or judging) data output from various sensors, thereby determining (or judging) an item which should be controlled next. The mobile assist device includes a movable body, a sensors mounted on the movable body, and a control module which determines the brightness of the surroundings from an output of the sensor, and also outputs a control signal for controlling the operation of the other instrument based on a result of the determination.

Mobile assist device and mobile assist method

According to one embodiment, a device includes an instruction unit which records in a recording medium, event-related data of when an event is detected and monitoring data of when the event occurs, and a display data output unit which outputs from the recording medium and plays as display data, the event-related data and a part of the monitoring data corresponding to the event-related data. If there is a specification input to the displayed event-related data, the monitoring data corresponding to the event-related data is played.

Data monitoring and management device and event data monitoring method

According to one embodiment, a basic format for a 3D signal having a first area to arrange main video data, a second area to arrange graphic data, a third area to arrange depth information of pixels of the main video data, and a fourth area to arrange depth information of pixels of the graphic data are defined. When depth information of pixels of the main video data is generated, a 3D processing module can select whether to use a first pattern obtained by inserting the graphic data into the main video data and a second pattern obtained by not inserting the graphic data into the main video data. A 3D related controller decides on the first or second pattern to be used by the 3D processing module.

Stereoscopic video signal processing apparatus and method thereof

One embodiment of invention is useful when updating data of a database which is configured to take in data through a network, has a part to be updated, and takes in information of media stored in a local storage, and characterized by that a result of retrieval is outputted with additional information of an updated date/time of information updated by connecting to a network, and the output result is informed.

Music data transfer method, information processing apparatus and information recording/playback system

According to one embodiment, a data refresh apparatus which refreshes data stored in a storage device having storage areas, comprises an error detector configured to detect a number of errors of data stored in a storage area of the storage device, an error correction unit configured to execute an error correction for the data stored in the storage area and generate corrected data, a refresh unit configured to write the corrected data to one of the storage areas, and a refresh controller configured to control an operation cycle of the refresh unit according to a number of times of write operations with respect to the storage area.

Data refresh apparatus and data refresh method

In a reproducing apparatus for reproducing audio data, a central control section includes detection means for detecting playlists of plural kinds of formats, and detection means for detecting audio data not associated with playlists. The central control section reads out audio data from an audio data storage section, and discriminating the format of the audio data to detect playlists. In addition, the central control section detects the presence/absence of audio data not associated with playlists, and if audio data not associated with playlists is stored, processes a list of such audio data as one playlist. The central control section causes the detected playlists to be displayed on a display section, successively processes the audio data from a first one of the playlists, and outputs the processed data through a sound output section.

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Hidehito Izawa